yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] cina:
Great idea!

I used to MTTY through VMWare Windows XP x86 within my host Windows 7 x64. It was a pain in the ass to get though but it always worked for me. This is a great time saver!

Regards to both of you Johev and agent_47!

Willing to test on my next flash.

Best regards,

Cina.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Nirak:
What do you mean? take out battery?

Gonna try this with my next flash
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] l3-art:
Yeah, the sentence is a bit odd to me to :P

i asume it means take out battery but still..

i'm not gonna try it until i know it for sure! :D

--edit--

i couldn't help it and used it anyway..

i assumed "take our batti" means take out battery cuz it worked for me!

my diamond was clean (i guess) and i'm now enjoying a new rom!

Thanx guys!!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Johev:
I would never post something that I did not test first.

I am glad that you liked it, and I really think it is much simpler then the mitty thread.

Good luck flashing.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] character:
rapidshare

first would like to give thanks for sharing this one but some people cannot use rapidshare links :( and unluckily I am those few:(

can you give alternative link like mediafire ????
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] helicopter88:
http://www.mediafire.com/?jabdu2n968xa9uk here you are
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] l3-art:
I LOVE THIS TOOL

this isn't good for my ORD.. i'm flashing the hell out of my diamond now!

Getting a HD2 in about a month.. can't wait for it ;D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] fibula:
I tried it, but I only get the start screen with "Touch diamond", no bootloader.

But I´ve installed HARDSPL Olinex, because I already flashed other ROM´s.

How can I solve this problem?

What about battery? When I have to get it out, when I can put it in again...?

fibula
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] l3-art:
to get into bootloader you have to reset your device while holding the volume down button!

then you will get the tri-color screen,

connect your diamond to your pc and flash a rom with a RUU!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Johev:
To get into bootloader with my diamond:

1) Turn Diamond off, take out battery for 5 seconds.

2) Put battery back inside, and press and hold the centre button (circle) and turn ON the device (hold both buttons) until you see a 3 colour screen

If step 2 does not work, try pressing holding volume down while turning the device on (hold the ON button too). Remember to take out the battery before you do this.

Hope this helps.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] cina:
Hi!

Does this work by simply copying any ROM's nbh file (instead of radio*.nbg) to folder and executing ROMUpdateUtility.exe? Will it MTTY before flashing the ROM?

Currently I'm trying this method out. It is around at 50% of flashing progress.

I'll report back.

Cina.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] abhilashit:
thanks a ton dude.... magnificent work...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] AnnihilatorSC:
Now if there were only a way to do it directly from Internal Storage, without RUU...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] cina:
It does not work the way I described. It hangs on HTC Diamond black boot screen and no red lines appears in lower right corner (no OS recognized).

So you have to flash 2 times. Radio flash is shorted for the first attempt and on the second turn you flash your ROM with CustomRUU.

There is a similiar tool like this with the method working with other devices I described above. FlashaholicRUU. Someone give it a try for Diamond. Next week I'll do it and report back.

Cheers,

Cina.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Johev:
I remember to see that post on xda developers front page short time ago, but I was not sure if it would work for HTC Diamond.

A universal task29 that would format and flash the device in one single process.

Ironically it was developed a few weeks after I have found an alternative way to mitty that I posted here.

So far I did not hear that it was compatible with Diamond, so I will not risk it.

It's nice to have all these options, because when I searched for something like this a few months ago, I could only find the mitty threat that has more than 80 posts.

For me it was strange as newer devices with very similar hardware and software already had something like this, but Diamond users had to use mitty.

Well I am glad that you like it, and hopefully I helped someone that was not able or willing to do it manually.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] megabeater:
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after installing MEMO WM6.1m i tried this and got connection Error, Recovery?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] cristiandema:
if i use only stock rom's ,do i need this?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Johev:
This is strange. Do you have HSPL installed? Can you flash custom roms? Because if the answer is yes, then you should be able to run this, as it uses the same program HTC devices use for flashing roms.

I am not 100% sure, but I think you do not need it if you just use stock roms. I think that if you are only using stock roms, than maybe you do not even have a HSPL installed, and that would probably Brick your device.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] cristiandema:
ok, thank's for your fast reply. :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] helicopter88:
if you use Mtty without a hard-spl you'll brick
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Jorny:
this post should be made sticky
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Johev:
Thanks, it's very kind of you :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] pockany:
I think that this thread should be STICKY. Thanks for your help, it worked for me! :)

I have a question: Can you make the same, but with the 1.17.25.09 RADIO? I had 1.17.25.09 before, but after I used your program, I have 1.09.25.23... Is it possible to keep my RADIO when I use your program?

Thanks for your answer in advance! :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] ralfwolf:
This works on the Raphael devices as well. Very cool. If you don't want to replace your radio, just delete or move the radio file and put in a RUU_signed.nbh . I used a splash screen which was small so it takes almost no time to load.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] cina:
Worked on my Diamond, I only have to download fav radio.nbh to stick with it.

I also tried Flashaholic RUU (FRUU) general version as it was reported to work with Diamond and it all went well. Task29 was performed faster as it does not use radio.nbh only a custom nbh of a splash screen. It executed a Task29 really fast, it was only 10 seconds to go.

Both util makes flashing faster, easier and happier. Thanks for the devs.

Regard, Cina.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] bountikill:
Best tool ever! Tried about 15 ROMs with this tool, very fast, very easy, it's a must-have !
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Johev:
I am glad that you liked it. :)

When I got my hands on this I could only think about the phrase of starcraft 2, “it's about time” :).
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] magicdave26:
Grr

Used this once, worked perfectly

Tried it again today, and almost bricked my diamond

The PC would not see the phone for USB flash after I used this MTTY and I did not have a ROM on the storage card

I tried over and over and over again with different PCs to get my device to be recognised and eventually, after about an hour of trying, my PC picked it up again and let me flash a ROM

NEVER using this again EVER
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Elrohir:
something tells me the verdict can not be assigned to the program in the first place... what is it that you could have done wrong.

Btw, almost bricked....??? that makes no sense, you just cannot figure out what is going on.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] magicdave26:
No, almost bricked means that no matter what I did, I could not get a ROM back on the device

And I have no idea what I could have done wrong, you explain if you can.

I cleaned up my storage card, removed all the crap I had been saving there for months, put everything into neat tidy folders on the storage card so I knew where everything was (Phone still working at this point)

The I made sure my battery was FULL - I ran the MTTY - the phone rebooted and stopped at the Diamond Touch splash screen as usual and no OS loads as usual

I power the phone into bootloader mode, and run my CustomRUU with my new ROM in the same folder As Usual

The phone just keeps switching to a grey screen saying "RETRY ENTER USB" flashing on and off

The screen gets grey lines horizontally as if crashed

I try removing the battery, loading back into bootloader, over and over

But the PC can not see the Phone anymore, so the CustomRUU can not detect the phone either

Eventually, I give up, I have lost my Diamond, but I leave it plugged in

After an hour, the phone changes modes ON ITS OWN and now the PC detects the phone and installs the driver, and now I can run CustomRUU and install my ROM

I did nothing different this time, to how I did it last time

I even tried connecting it to my laptop to see if the PC was the problem, and it still did not detect the phone

So it was the phone what was the problem, and the problem only started AFTER I ran this MTTY program on it

So YES it IS MTTY that ALMOST bricked my Diamond
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Johev:
well I have no idea what could have happened. the program worked well for every one that have tried it,at least until now. I completely understand that you do not want to use this program but for me and other people it still works as intended. I wish you luck with your Diamond but I do not believe it was the fault of the program. I have read about phones that when overheated behave in a strange mode, maybe this was the case.

Well I am glad you got your phone to work.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] magicdave26:
Thanks, sorry for ranting on, the phone was not the only thing that went wrong for me that day

It was one of those days where everything I did went wrong, the phone died, then later on I got a virus on the PC, and at the end of the day, I went out to collect a PSU from another town, and missed the last bus home and got stuck out there for hours

That was only 3 things that went wrong, there was more but I wish to forget that day !

Thanks for the tool, Im sure it is fine, it was just my unlucky day

Anyway, I might try MTTY again one day, but this time I am leaving a ROM on the storage card incase this happens again
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Elrohir:
the grey small horizontal lines mostly on left side of screen you saw are common when the phone cannot flash a rom, while it did get the task to flash. It keeps seeking and mentioning to connect by usb. No bricking there. That makes me wonder if you gave your diamond a command to flash from internal storage somewhere in the process.

Second thought: since the usb connnection fails, are you running XP or Vista/7? you cannot flash by usb in bootloader using vista/7 without driver adjustment(in bootloader you wont see USB, you'll see nothing or just ' serial') However, strange thing that the two devices do find each otherafter an hour.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] magicdave26:
Yes I have no problem using Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and Bootlader USB flash usually, it always connects for me - the MTTY works from this PC too, no problems with drivers or anything - I can flash radios with CustomRUU USB from this PC too

Just not that one time - btw I used MTTY again lastnight and everything was fine this time, but I flashed from the storage card, not USB this time
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Johev:
Not sure if you still need this information, but if you want to have the 1.17.xx radio on your device while doing this, just replace the *.nbh file that I provide with the radio version that you want. It will work identically, but you will end up with your favourite radio instead of this one.

I just thought it would be better to provide this utility with something (almost a random radio) then tell people you need to get a valid radio for HTC Diamond in order to make this work.

Good luck.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Rylo:
Isn't it possible to flash a bootscreen instead of a radio ROM? it will speed up the process.

I used Flashaholics flashtool where you can select whether you want to flash a radio or just a splash/bootscreen
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Johev:
I have heard about the Flashaholic tool, but this is not the same. When I talked to agent_47 regarding this tool, there was no Flashaholic yet :).

As I have no expertise do to such a thing, I will keep using this tool, until I have a confirmation that something better is compatible with HTC Diamond 1.

I will use Flashaholic for my HTC HD2.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] killajoejackson:
I have test, and it works without problems :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] saopacic:
No boot loader

I was wondering if you managed to unbrick it. I had Onlinex 1.40 on my device. Tried this until as my camera was playing about. When it finished and rebooted all I get is 'Touch Diamond' on screen without any red writing at the bottom. Cannot get in boot loader nor flash loader. I've left the image in flash before trying this. Any help welcomed! tried all sort of key combinatins without luck. Notices if I do Vol down and back space to get to image loader it does not do anything. However, after that even the charger will not work untill battery is out just as if device has crashed.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Pumpiron579:
bootloader, As how to enter bootloader, press volume down and reset simultaneously
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] magicdave26:
no thats wrong

hold vol dn + back button + press reset
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] saopacic:
quick update. I got it to boot in boot loader and immidiately installed the OS. The radio is 1.17. I've also changed HSPL to 1.93. It seems that now I can go into boot loader easy.

However, the interesting point is the camera still works occasionaly - tested on more then one firmware. So far I've tried:

1: replaced the camera module with connector cable from known working Diamond

2: replaced the main board from the same working Diamond

3. Tried MTTy and this method obviously

None of above resulted in camera working 100%. Dont think it is hardware fault as I have replaced almost all from another phone

any clues?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] magicdave26:
Have you flashed to a Stock ROM to make sure it is not the ROM

I get some ROMs where the camera doesnt work and some where it does, but all stock ROMs everything has worked fine
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Pumpiron579:
FYI look...........

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7683961&postcount=6636

:confused: That is how I flash a rom from internal storage. If you want to flash a rom after task 29 with your PC , you want to take out the battery, put the battery back in, then follow this,

To load a bootloader:

1.Remove the Stylus.

2.Remove the Battery Cover.

3.Press and hold the power and volume down buttons

4.While holding the buttons insert the tip of the stylus into the Reset hole located on the back of the device to the right of the USB port (the hole is labeled with Reset).

5.The device will then Boot up and go into the bootloader (tricolor screen). and put it into Bootloader mode. Then plug the phone up via usb-PC. then run RUU setup.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] saopacic:
May sound silly but where do yo get the stock ROM? tried here but no luck. Cannot see it on HTC either.

Got it from HTC. will try it shortly
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] makpaolo:
I have try this method and is OK, very good!!

thanks
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] lysbryter:
I think I just something stupid. I decided to run this program before flashing to the latest TAEL ROM on my Raphael, but now I can't get the necessary ROM on the phone since it won't boot past its "Touch Pro" start-up screen. How do I proceed to wake the phone back to life? (I have HardSPL installed)

Update: Doh, I just followed the instructions in post 15, and now it works fine. :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Johev:
Glad to hear that it has worked out for you lysbryter.

Sorry for the late answer, but as I have a Leo, and my wife only flashed 1 rom on her HTC Diamond, I sometimes forget to drop by.

Any problems, feel free to pm me.

Nice flashing to all.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] nvidiaati:
i use 6~8 roms feel some problem...

the way easy for mtty

thanks
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Johev:
The whole point behind this was to make mtty easy for HTC Diamond, as it was strange for me to only have this tool for newer devices, even though the hardware and software were very similar.

Glad it helped you.
[Captivate General] Finch44:
Just curious if this phone will have a workaround to sideload Android Apps like the HTC did for Aria (Full Description Here if you didnt know: http://pocketnow.com/tech-news/htc-sync-lets-att-aria-owners-sideload-apps )? If anyone knows please post! I was on the fence when I saw no camera flash, but seeing that AT&T will be restricting (why? Iphone competition?) unknown Android Apps is another big one. So if atleast there is a workaround, I will consider switching to this phone.

If not, ill just keep hoping for Android on my HTC hd2 :D
[Captivate General] meatrocket:
I'm not certain either. I did download the Samsung Kies program last night but didn't look at it since I don't have a Captivate to hook it to until Sunday. I have a reasonable expectation that it will allow you to do it since you can buy apps from Samsung directly in the program.

Also consider that this phone has already been rooted. My understanding is that you can load "unauthorized" apps and apps that require root access once this has been done. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
[Captivate General] systoxity:
youre right. sideloading wont be a problem
[Captivate General] Finch44:
Awesome. Thanks for the quick responses guys. Looks like Ill be heading to my AT&T store. Been wanting to have a fully fledged smart android phone on at&t for awhile now. Heres hoping for the best :D
[Captivate General] Agent Carmichael:
I was under the impression that the root alone wont give that option back. Do you need a custom rom as well or does the root really take care of the issue by itself?
[Captivate General] systoxity:
*foot in mouth*
[Captivate General] Agent Carmichael:
Do you know the name of the app?
[Captivate General] systoxity:
fk me i should go to bed. I was thinking about the htc aria. Totally diff story.

But further research shows that peeps have already tested sideloading and it works through the ADB. I didn't find a full review however. Try to do a google search for how to side load captivate adb and see if anything useful pops up. let us know. If you don't find anything ill properly look into it tomorrow
[Captivate General] Finch44:
Found the link. Its not an app really. Read it here. Sounds extremely simple and straightforward. Cant wait.

http://forum.androidcentral.com/t-captivate/22875-captivate-sideload-app.html
[Captivate General] BoostedSR20:
Anyone get this to work? The phone shows up when you do the devices command, but anytime I try to push an apk it says permission denied. ?
[Captivate General] wpb2:
try "install" command instead of "push" command. It worked for me.
[Captivate General] BoostedSR20:
Ok, it worked... half. I am trying to get the HTC IME keyboard on, it has 2 apk's to install. One worked fine, when I tried the other it gave me this this error:

install_failed_older_sdk

?
[Captivate General] BoostedSR20:
I figured it out, I was trying to install the Froyo version. Oops.. works fine now. :o
[Captivate General] redgren:
Sideload how-to recently posted by none other than Samsung:

ars.samsung.com/customer/usa/jsp/faqs/faqs_view_us.jsp?SITE_ID=22&PG_ID=0&AT_ID=303992&PROD_SUB_ID=0&PROD_ID=558&EMAIL_ID=[/url]

(sorry, new user, can't post link - cut'n'paste)
[EVO 4G General] Sprockethead:
For example, I just tried to install a new wimax version on my phone. Where do I go in the phone to see if I was successful?

TIA
[EVO 4G General] vbyt:
go into adb shell then type

wimax_std
[EVO 4G General] akarol:
Keep getting a "not found".
[EVO 4G General] Sprockethead:
Me too.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\eokda57>cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools

C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb devices
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
<my device> device

C:\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell
# wimax_std
wimax_std
wimax_std: not found
#
[EVO 4G General] vbyt:
sorry

wimax_mtd
[EVO 4G General] Sprockethead:
Cool. Thanks for the info. My wimax flash stuck, which is good.
[EVO 4G General] akarol:
Cool. Thanks! :)
[EVO 4G General] Vivix729:
STD, eh? :P
[EVO 4G General] vbyt:
at work, was thinking about STandarD, sicko...lol
[EVO 4G General] itmustbejj:
At least they never pulled this ****...

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/07/14/droid-x-actually-self-destructs-if-you-try-to-mod-it/

http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...-locked-down-let-me-tell-you-what-i-know.html

Edit: As usual, the hype machine might have ran with this one and many (including myself) got sucked in. Likely not as bad as originally thought. Apparently these eFuse chips are in all omap3 devices (including the milestone and original droid) so they likely are not as scary as some fear, but with the hard line Motorola is taking with the DroidX, who knows for sure?

http://stevenbird.info/2010/07/15/droidx-today-is-the-day-more-security-info/

And who would have THOUGHT a techcrunch based site would be overly dramatic to drive traffic? lol
[EVO 4G General] david_ag:
WOWWW... jaw dropping...
[EVO 4G General] GHOST99K:
Haha HTC still on top.always knew Verizon is the cdma version of AT&T.I guess Motorola following crapple's footsteps.no wonder that evil red eye on the Droid x keep watching if u do something funny with ur device.lol

Thanx for posting
[EVO 4G General] Sirchuk:
Ahh, eFuse chips for hardware bricks....That sucks.

Really lame that they are doing everything possible to prevent rooting their phone/using ROM's. I guess I can't recommend a Motorola anymore.
[EVO 4G General] xavier1022:
Wow that's crazy... this kind of scares me. What if htc decides to follow in the footsteps of these manufacturers. Hopefully they remain just and fair. If u pay for the device, its ours. No longer does yur hand need to be involved.

Sent from my evo
[EVO 4G General] Sirchuk:
I think HTC takes a different approach. Motorola is like Apple, HTC is like Google.

I'm sure HTC sees the benefit of a few people rooting their devices so they remain in the media, show how "cool" the phone can be and all the added features. Fewer still will take the plunge and root their phone. I wonder how many rooted EVO's there are, probably around 2-3% I would guess, if not less. Sure, HTC takes "token" steps to lock us out, but nothing that hasn't taken more than a few days to break into, and I think HTC knows that.

It's a good trade off that Motorola just doesn't understand, and I'm sure HTC's phones will continue to sell very well.

It could have been a stipulation from Verizon too...but I doubt it.
[EVO 4G General] Sporkman:
HOLY hell !! that's crazy !!
[EVO 4G General] SilverStone641:
Thats brutal! i hope that HTC understands a similar move would KILL their handsets.

but i have a question. if it's a hardware security feature, whats to keep someone from simply desoldering the chip?